STEPHEN BELBER (Associate Writer) is a graduate of Juilliard’s Playwrights Program, where he studied under Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang. His play Tape was produced as part of Humana Festival 2000 and subsequently made into a film by the director Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Robert Sean Leonard. The film played at Sundance 2001 and will open in theaters in Fall 2001. The play has been produced in Miami, New Haven, West Virginia, Montana, Arizona, and Malta, with scheduled productions in Chicago, Virginia, and New York. Stephen’s other full-length plays have been produced and workshoped by New York Stage & Film, Second Stage, Soho Rep, Via Theater, Juilliard, Lincoln Center Living Room, Expanded Arts, Urban Stages (Playrights Horizons Upstairs), Goldsmith Productions (Beckett Theater), and The 78th St. Theater Lab. Two new plays, The Transparency of Val and Drifting Elegant, were recently produced by The Trustus Theater in Columbia, S.C., and by New Repertory Theater in Boston, respectively. He has also written the book for the new rock musical, Sugar Mountain, which is under option by New York’s Via Theater. He has received two Le Comte du Nouy Foundation Grants, the Award for Excellence in Playwriting for New York’s 2000 Fringe Festival (for Finally), and first place in Trustus Theater’s New Playwrights Festival 2000 (for The Transparency of Val). He has been in residence at New York Stage & Film, Chautauqua, Juilliard, and with The Laramie Project at Sundance and Dartmouth (with New York Theater Workshop).

STEPHEN WANGH (Associate Writer) is a playwright, director, and teacher of acting. His book An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski, was published by Vintage Books in September 2000. He was the dramaturg for Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. His plays include Class! (with John Lipsky), Calamity! (with Suzanne Baxtresser), The Dragon, and Goin’ Downtown. He has directed in Boston, where he was Artistic Director of Reality Theatre, and in New York where he was Artistic Director of The New York Free Theater. In 1967 he studied acting with Jerzy Grotowski, and for many years now he has taught physical acting in Europe and in the United States. For the past ten years he has been Master Teacher at the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. His productions there include Ubu Roi, Transit Mass, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, and QuickFix, a play about advertising and addiction in American culture, which is to tour American colleges and universities in the Fall of 2001.